News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? by Icathian on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:58PM (#50472363)
The snarky but honest response is HackerNews/Reddit. But if you're trying for something that actually checks the sites you point it at instead of relying on users reporting "issues", a buddy of mine runs https://onlineornot.com/ and it seems generally more reliable.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? by ceejayoz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:07PM (#50472515)
Back in the golden days you could just go to search.twitter.com, search "AWS", and sort by recent.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? by pacoWebConsult on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:16PM (#50472660)
Still can. AWS Status pages are still terrible. See HN for the outage a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? by ceejayoz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:17PM (#50472685)
> Still can.

No. It requires an account now, and they did away with the recent posts firehose.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage? by krazydad on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:08PM (#50472542)
"Start Free Trial" -- uh, no thanks. You seem skeptical of crowd sourcing. Enjoy your Encyclopedia Brittanica.
[ Parent | on HN ]